I was so taken with them that within a year I had all of them, out of my own pocket-money, despite the fact that they were so intensely expensive compared to the cheap American comics at the local store.

The mother of this little rapscallion thinks she has found the real culprit behind this whole mess: The main thing that needs to be done is for supermarkets to stop offering alcohol at pocket-money prices.

Here, too, however, he was readily exploited by unscrupulous clients, who led him to believe that they were penniless and, as a result, were not only invited to meals at his house but were even provided with weekly pocket-money.